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Passenger Car Market in Russia. Results of 2015, Trends and Prospects

Summing up the results of the last year, we are pleased to offer you installment of the traditional marketing report prepared by the experts of AUTOSTAT analytical agency and covering the Russian automotive market.

The report “Passenger Car Market in Russia. Results of 2015, Trends and Prospects” contains detailed information on the last year’s passenger car sales, their dynamics and structure, market capacity, its price parameters, segmentation, etc. Results of passenger car sales in Europe, dynamics and structure of passenger car import to Russia as well as information on the market leaders by classes are included as separate pages. Moreover, we devoted special attention to trends and prospects of passenger car market in the forecast of the automotive market development in short-term prospects. Each market player’s sales results – dynamics for recent years, model structure, and monthly sales - are represented in the report visually.

In 2015 new passenger car sales in Russia came up to almost 1.5 million vehicles, which is 36.2% less than a year ago. Despite the continuing sales decrease (-30.5%), LADA is still the market leader with over 260,000 vehicles. Then come the Korean manufactures of KIA (-16.4%) and Hyundai (-10.3%). Each of them sold more than 160,000 vehicles. Last year companies imported 300,000 passenger cars to our country that is twice less than a year ago. On average about 25,000 cars were imported to Russia every month. In 2015 the share of new vehicles was less than 98% of the total import. The leaders here are Japanese Toyota, German Mercedes-Benz and Korean Hyundai, which generate almost half of the total import together. According to AUTOSTAT estimation, in 2015 the average price of a passenger car in the Russian market came up to 1.2 million roubles, that is 20.1% or 200,300 roubles more than a year ago.

Marketing report “Passenger Car Market in Russia. Results of 2015, Trends and Prospects” was prepared with an office research method. The major information sources are AEB, FCS (Federal Customs Service), ACEA data as well as our own databases and information obtained from the market players directly. All data presented in the report is clearly organized and compiled in tables. Every subject is illustrated with graphs and diagrams.